About Us

We are Roddy Branagan and Setha Davenport. We founded Setha's Seeds in 2013 and have been growing NZ Heritage Seeds for 11 years. The last 8 years we have spent in sunny Hawke's Bay. Our passion for seed started when we were working on an organic farm in the Wairarapa growing both seed and vegetables. After eating our own organic produce, we could not go back to buying vegetables. Food security, local produce, and seasonality became our priorities for our table and seed completes the circle. This last year we welcomed our daughter, River Rose into the world and now more than ever see how important it is to grow and consume healthy food.

Our Seeds

We grow all of our seeds offered
in our catalogue. This is an important distinction from our collection to other
seed companies who often purchase in most of their seeds from the multinational
seed market. All of our NZ heritage
seeds, which are most of the seeds in our range came to New Zealand with the
early settlers arriving on boats and wakas to start their new lives in a
foreign land. Some came sown into hems of women’s skirts or in their trunks or
suitcases. After all these years they have been kept alive by the gardeners of
New Zealand. They are very well suited to this climate and you can now keep
them alive in your garden for your children’s children to enjoy one day. We
also have some open pollinated varieties that we have decided to include here
because we like them so much. These varieties are not NZ heritage but we have
been growing them for some time and find them important parts of our collection
and wanted to make them available. They will produce true to type and therefore
the seeds can be saved. We also have overseas
heritage varieties that we have received from sources in New Zealand and
decided to grow out. If they have performed well, we have included them. Here
is a code below to make it clear. All the descriptions start with their
corresponding codes.